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  1. Re:Observation on After Trip to ISS, SpaceX's Dragon Capsule Returns Safely To Earth · · Score: 1

    Fly upside down.

  2. Re:Safely? in the waters of the Pacific Ocean on After Trip to ISS, SpaceX's Dragon Capsule Returns Safely To Earth · · Score: 1

    But the CHEESE!

  3. Re:oh jesus fucking christ on a pogo stick on Backyard Brains Can Help Satisfy Your Inner Frankenstein (Video) · · Score: 1

    Also unlike roaches, PETA members do not regrow lost legs. However I do not view this as a problem and in fact this serves as a useful inhibitor to help keep them from showing up places.

  4. Re:Nintendo has had this for years. on Amazon Patents Electronic Gifting · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure Steam doesn't behave like Amazon's patent. The time I made a gift in Steam I was charged that day and the game immediately showed up in my friend's list of games without him having to do anything.

  5. Re:What about steam? on Amazon Patents Electronic Gifting · · Score: 3, Informative

    It won't affect Steam at all. With Steam you buy the gift and it is immediately given to the recipient's account. There's no denial or acceptance and the charge is immediate. Amazon's patent is for a system that allows the gift recipient to deny the gift and not allow payment processing to go through until the gift was accepted or to permit the person giving the gift to be able to withdraw it before it was accepted.

  6. Re:Worse? on Human Water Use Accounts For 42% of Recent Sea Level Rise · · Score: 1

    This sounds retarded. I must read about it. Can you provide a little more detail so I can better investigate or even an article about it?

  7. Re:There is only one moral call on Geeks In the Public Forum? · · Score: 1

    A right is something that cannot be taken away from you and healthcare is hardly something that meets that most basic requirement.

    I can easily take healthcare away from you by having all doctors suddenly shut their doors (even though this is an unlikely scenario it serves the point). Without doctors the only healthcare you have a right to is what you can provide to yourself.

    Hell, let's look at a pandemic situation across the US. There would be too many sick people and hospitals and doctors would be overloaded. What happened to your right to health care? Woops. It disappeared.

    Something cannot be a right if it's based on a finite good or service.

  8. Re:What an elitist on Geeks In the Public Forum? · · Score: 2

    Horrible idea. Look no further than California to understand why.

  9. Re:scifi AI on 'Inexact' Chips Save Power By Fudging the Math · · Score: 1

    This chip will provide the basis for creating Wheatley. An AI who is designed with the express purpose of being a moron.

  10. Re:the irony is on Americans Happy To Pay More For Clean Energy, But Only a Little More · · Score: 1

    Of course. It's because all the men walk around in a suit jacket and a banana hammock.

  11. Re:5 weeks = long term? on MIT Study: Prolonged Low-level Radiation Exposure Poses Little Risk · · Score: 1

    I was under the impression that half life if related to how many emissions or the strength of the emission the particle will give off and it is those radiation emissions which are dangerous. It's the reason why plutonium, with a half life of 80 million years, is dangerous to the human body as a toxic agent rather than a radioactive agent. I'd suspect that I-129 with a half life of 15 million years is either mostly harmless since the body does use iodine but if it is harmful that is most likely to come from toxicity and poisoning rather than radiation.

  12. Re:5 weeks = long term? on MIT Study: Prolonged Low-level Radiation Exposure Poses Little Risk · · Score: 1

    The super sweet spot is pretty super. If you're a little off the mark you get all the super powers but you end up talking and expressing thoughts like a three year old.

  13. Re:Senate on Ron Paul Effectively Ending Presidential Campaign · · Score: 1

    Wait a minute. So if the VP can preside over the Senate in lieu of the pro tempore does that mean that all the legistlation that Reid refused to bring to the floor could be brought to the floor if the VP said so?

  14. Re:Makes no sense on Only 22% of California 8th Graders Pass National Science Test · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, you have states like N/S Dakota, Montana, and Utah which would traditionally be classified as Red states at the top of the list....

  15. Re:Different kind of anti-social on UK Home Secretary Bans US Martial Arts Expert · · Score: 1

    Okay. How about a plane to France and pay some Frenchman to carry you to England in a boat?

  16. Re:do *not* open mystery JAR files from Russia on Jars of Irradiated Russian Animals Find a New Purpose · · Score: 1

    That PETA hasn't made an outcry yet.

  17. Re:Radiation Hormesis on Jars of Irradiated Russian Animals Find a New Purpose · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There's not been actual scientific evidence for radiation hormesis in humans, despite it being your pet theory.

    I suspect that the reason for that is... you know... doing it in a controlled fashion to be able to test and gather evidence.

  18. Re:How can you quantify the loss? on The Avengers: Why Pirates Failed To Prevent a Box Office Record · · Score: 1

    Is is sodium free salt?

  19. Re:Who came up with the idea? on FDA May Let Patients Buy More Drugs Without Prescriptions · · Score: 1

    Unlikely. This move will lower the demand and/or price of the product leading to less profits. It's more likely support for this is coming from within the insurance realm.

  20. Re:Just Wait for the Catch on FDA May Let Patients Buy More Drugs Without Prescriptions · · Score: 1

    TFA mentions the impact on Medicare for prescription drug costs, but it doesn't discuss the impact for non-seniors. My prescription drug plan doesn't cover over-the-counter medication. As of last year my flex pay plan won't let me buy over-the-counter medication with pre-tax dollars. Together, both of those mean that moving all these drugs to non-prescription will make them significantly more expensive to me and all the millions of other people who pay for them now through their insurance.

    This is just my suspicion, but I suspect the pharma companies would be against it for this reason. Since they can fleece the insurance companies with the higher profit margins while protecting demand, the overall profit rises. Insurance companies will probably support it saying that such measures will help lower medical costs, mostly to them by allowing them to drop the drugs from their coverage.

  21. Re:Cue huge pushback from the AMA in 3...2... on FDA May Let Patients Buy More Drugs Without Prescriptions · · Score: 1

    Yes, because the entire reason your prescription can change year to year has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that the shape of your eye lens is constantly changing.

  22. Pronunciation on How the Syrian Games Industry Crumbled Under Sanctions and Violence · · Score: 1

    Quirkat.... how do our pronounce it?

    Drawing on my native language I am assuming it's "Queer cat".

  23. Re:Not only that... on Some USAF Pilots Refuse To Fly F-22 Raptor · · Score: 1

    And if they start landing, they better pay attention to what a few Japanese generals stated about a rifle being behind every blade of grass

    Admiral. A Japanese Admiral said that.

  24. Re:Pot, kettle on Russia Threatens Pre-emptive, Destructive Force On US Missile Defense · · Score: 1

    c) I am no pronounced military strategist, but opening many fronts (as the US is doing in the present era) comes with benefits as well as costs: there is NO WAY today's superpowers can tackle conflicts like the ones the US is maintaining, and at the SAME time take on skirmishes with another superpower: the Russians are well aware of this, and they know that they absolutely can vaporize the array and get away with it- and they are letting you know that they will do it. Remember that China is also a superpower, and good luck getting them on the table and heaving them your way while engaged in tens of other conflicts, especially in a decade or so when their orbital, ICBM, naval and electronic warfare capabilities will be much more enhanced in comparison with the present day.

    It shows that you aren't a military strategist. First of, you need to consider that this site and others are being built with the permission and at the request of the nations which they are being built in (Poland, Czechslovakia). These nations are also members of the NATO alliance. For Russian to attack these installations, even if they are US operated, would require that they violate the sovereignty and air space of the host nations. Such an aggression can, and probably would, lead to NATO forces declaring war against Russia. While the US may be stretched and Russia may be able to fend off US aggression in a war because of that, the military forces of other NATO nations are not so stretched and are not an easy match for Russia.

  25. Re:School inquiry? on Automated Dorm Room Causes a School Inquiry · · Score: 1

    Yes. Unfortunately it just "Caused a School Inquiry". The article was far more interesting when I believed it said "Causes a School Injury".